Search Engine Friendly User Controls ?

[kefi2927]

Hi
Just starting to dip my feet into the world of ASP.NET.
Do pages ending with the extension .aspx get picked up by search engines such as Google?
If I use a 'User Control' to put together a navigation system for all pages, will search engines actually read these as text on the page?
Any advise would be appreciated.

K

 

[crazyboybert]

Hi Kefi

As far as I am aware search engine spiders will interact with aspx the same as with any other pages genertaed by server scripting. The spiders look at the repsonse generated byt he server so what technology you use to manage your website behind the scenes is irrelevant - ot os the HTML that your pages return to the browser (or spider in the case of search engiones) which is indexed for searching. The file extension of the page is irrelevant also as the spiders will request any pages found withinlinks in the site.

Hence for ascx will appear as part of your pages HTML so the spiders will be able to access these exactly the same. I havent done any research specifically into search engines and dotnet so would be interested to hear if anyone has epxerienced or heard of dotnet specific spider behaviour.

Rob



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[kefi2927]

Thanks for your reply. It's been very useful. If I get to know any more about this i will post it up.

Cheers

K